Site Reliability Engineer

The role

You will own production reliability across cloud and edge, including observability, incident response, node lifecycle, and stateful workloads. You will build systems and processes to ensure reliability for hardware edge devices in the field.

What you will do

• Own, define and drive reliability SLIs and SLOs for cloud deployments
• Own, define and drive reliability SLIs and SLOs for edge devices in remote and contested areas
• Own the observability stack including Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and OpenTelemetry
• Participate in on-call and incident response
• Encode reliability into infrastructure as code
• Help stand up new infrastructure and other related DevSecOps tasks

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as an SRE or related roles
• Deep Kubernetes operations experience: node lifecycle, workload scheduling, StatefulSets, graceful drains, and live cluster debugging
• Experience designing comprehensive observability dashboards and high signal-to-noise ratio alerting rules
• Competent and experienced incident responder practicing methodical evidence-first triage, blameless postmortems, and turning incidents into durable guardrails
• Production Terraform or OpenTofu experience
• Fluent in AWS including IAM, networking, multi-account environments, and account and workload hardening
• Experience managing high availability database deployments
• IoT or edge fleet operation experience
• Comfortable operating in scrappy, fast-paced environments, and turning ambiguous requirements into concrete solutions
• Optimize for providing value early in projects and short iteration cycles

Nice to have

• GovCloud, FIPS, or other regulated or air-gapped environment experience
• Constrained edge hardware such as NVIDIA Jetson platforms (AGX Thor, Orin Nano), including shared CPU and GPU memory and thermal constraints
• Overlay or mesh networking operations: Nebula, WireGuard, Tailscale, or similar
• Standing up SLO and error-budget tooling (sloth, Pyrra, or equivalent) from scratch
• Active security clearance

Benefits

• Significant stock options
• 401(k) with employer matching
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family
• Relocation assistance provided (if applicable)
• Unlimited PTO (two-week minimum)
• 11 paid holidays per year
• Paid parental leave for both parents
• Lunch provided when working in-office
• Fully stocked kitchenette
• Free EV charging at the HQ
• Office in El Segundo, CA stocked with quality coffee, snacks, and craft beer

Before you apply

• Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful, permanent resident, Refugee, or Asylee, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State

About the company

Picogrid is a venture-backed defense technology company building infrastructure to unify sensors, autonomy, and operators. Their mission is to deliver an operational advantage to secure the United States and its allies.